Image pickup apparatus, solid-state imaging device, and image generating method

• US 8,396,333 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2011
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakayama, Masaaki, Fusa, Shinobu, Kitao, Ichiro, Maeda, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Alavi, Amir
• Application Number:
  US13/181,090
• Publication Number:
  US 20110267373A1
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 382/188, 382/264, 382/282, 382/312, 382/313, 348/51, 348/54, 348/207.99, 348/207.2, 348/294, 348/302, 348/333.01, 348/362, 348/E5.042, 348/E5.047, 345/119, 345/156, 345/169, 345/179, 345419-420, 345/660, 345/666, 345/698, 358/527, 358/537, 358/538
• US Class Current: 382/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes

Abstract

In an image pickup apparatus of the present invention, a CCD 11 in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array, thereof the number of effective horizontal pixels is H and the number of effective vertical pixels is V; a aspect switching operator 18 that sets one of a plurality of aspect modes including a first aspect mode and a second aspect mode; an image processor 141 that generates first image data for recording in the first aspect mode, and generates second image data for recording in the second aspect mode, wherein the first image data for recording is generated using image data that is generated with pixels being H1 horizontal pixels by V1 vertical pixels included in the pixels on the CCD 11 or image data that is obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing, the second image data for recording is generated using image data that is generated with pixels being H2 horizontal pixels by V2 vertical pixels included in the pixels on the solid-state imaging device or image data that is obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing, and the first image data for recording and the second image data for recording satisfy the following relationships: H2<H1≦H, and V1<V2≦V. Thus, it is possible to make the sizes or qualities of sets of image data for recording close to each other even if they have different aspect modes.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a solid-state imaging device in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array, in which the number of effective horizontal pixels is H and the number of effective vertical pixels is V;

a display portion that has a displayable region in which the number of effective horizontal pixels is PH and the number of effective vertical pixels is PV and that displays image data or image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing;

a setting portion that sets an aspect; and

a display controller that controls the display portion to display image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing,

the display controller acquires an aspect set by the setting portion, and subjects image data output from the solid-state imaging device so that the image data is displayed in a region having the set aspect included in the displayable region of the display portion so as to generate image data for displaying.

2. A display apparatus comprising:

a solid-state imaging device in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array, in which the number of effective horizontal pixels is H and the number of effective vertical pixels is V;

a display portion that has a displayable region in which the number of effective horizontal pixels is PH and the number of effective vertical pixels is PV and that displays image data or image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing;

a setting portion that sets an aspect; and

a display controller that controls the display portion to display image data or image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing;

wherein the solid-state imaging device outputs image data generated with pixels being H1 horizontal pixels by V1 vertical pixels of an aspect that is set by the setting portion; and

the display controller subjects image data output from the solid-state imaging device so as to generate image data for displaying, and controls the display portion to display the generated image date for displaying.